Arendt on Ancient and Modern Concepts of History

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Arendt on Ancient and Modern Concepts of History

Monday 14 October 2024 is the 118th anniversary of the birth of Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 04 December 1975), who was born in Linden, a borough of Hanover, then part of Prussia, on this date in 1906.

In her essay “The Concept of History: Ancient and Modern,” included in Between Past and Future, Arendt offered a subtle and detailed account of history and how the concept of history has changed from the ancient world to today. The modern concept of history, derived from the world-alienation of modern science, is shown to lay the ground for the emergence of mass man in mass society, described in detail in Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism.

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